Theodore M.
why I
she brought me down again and smacked my hands and I think that's
remember it.
It must have been the summer when I was either four or five years old. But that
incident brought rocks and water together both of which have been a very
significant part of my life from then on, although it took a little while before
it all came together that way because I got off into other interests.
Sure. You went to school, then,
Franklin High School in
I started there in the first grade and I
went all the way through that school. When I started in the first grade, the
whole class was all in one room. That year my brother was a senior in high
school upstairs, my sister was in the fourth grade, and I was in the first grade.
That was the one year the three of us were there in school together, the year of
1924-2s.
When I was in the sixth grade they built a new high school, and my seventh
grade moved over into the high school building when a number of other
schools were consolidated with Franklin. This, remember, was rural Maryland
and we had no junior high. We had seven grades and then we went into high
school and had four years of high school. So I got through school in 11 years,
whereas in Baltimore and in many other places, people were generally going
12 years. And this eventually got me through college when I was only 20.
Going to the same school for 11 years gives me very vivid memories. I could
probably-and I know you won't be interested, but I could probably tell you
the names of all my grade school teachers and quite a few of my high school
teachers. Of course, one reason is that, from time to time, I've been back
there. We had our 50th high school reunion in 1985.
How many people were in that class then?
Well, there were not a lot. There were about 80 that graduated in 1935 and
there were about 70 surviving in 1985. About 45 or 48 or so and their spouses
were there in 1985 for the reunion. We also had a
reunion and there
may have been other reunions. Those are the only one that I attended.
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